My Hero Academia Prequel Ends by Proving How Hero Society Is Broken
Warning: spoilers for My Hero Academia Vigilantes chapter 126!
As the My Hero Academia spin-off My Hero Academia Vigilantes has officially drawn to a close, it's worked hard to bridge the remaining gap between its own timeframe and the main series story. One of the ways it's been doing that is by reflecting the changes to come in hero society, redefining the lines between heroes, vigilantes, and villains.
Like the series' title implies, Vigilantes is about unregistered heroes, or vigilantes, who fight crime illegally, placing them somewhere between law-abiding heroes and law-breaking villains. Some, like Stendhal (soon to be the Hero Killer Stain), end up becoming villains. There are also heroes, like Captain Celebrity, who weren't breaking laws but did carry out some morally questionable actions that caused problems for their careers. Now, the final chapters of Vigilantes have proven that the opposite is possible as well, allowing protagonist Koichi Haimawari to step up from vigilante to true hero.
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In the case of Captain Celebrity, his misdeeds are largely related to philandering and led to major image problems back in America. To help rehabilitate this image, Captain Celebrity takes a trip abroad, performing hero work in Japan for several months. Despite his reputation, it was still trivially easy for him to get a visa to work as a hero in Japan. Heroes are so in demand that, no matter what kind of reputation they might develop, any nation will eagerly welcome an experienced hero with open arms. Familiar with that fact, Captain Celebrity is able to throw his support behind Koichi, and get him brought over to the US. This makes it clear
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